Bologna: Local publishers report demand for ‘fun’ amid move away from ‘issues’
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Local news
Bologna Children’s Book Fair, held 8–11 April, was ‘the most upbeat fair for some time’, reported Scholastic senior rights manager Claire Pretyman. 'The mood was enthusiastic and joyful,' agreed Allen... Read more
Ashleigh Barton on ‘Freddie Spector, Fact Collector: Space Cadet’
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Features Interview
Ashleigh Barton is a children's author and copywriter from Sydney who draws on her rich experience in publishing and marketing, including work on Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor. Her latest, Freddie Spector,... Read more
Student-run Elephant Page Publishing launches at Curtin Uni
Date: 18 April 2024Category: Local news
A new student press, Elephant Page Publishing, has been established at Curtin University in Perth (Boorloo), Western Australia. Curtin University’s professional writing and publishing senior lecturer Per Henningsgaard is serving... Read more
Yvonne Sewankambo on ‘Good Hair’
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Features Interview
Sydney-based Yvonne Sewankambo is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and publicist whose debut picture book, Good Hair (Walker, June 2024), is ‘a wonderfully inclusive book representing various cultures and subcultures, showcasing the... Read more
Hazard to leave Hachette
Date: 11 April 2024Category: Local news
Hachette Australia and New Zealand has announced group publishing director Fiona Hazard is leaving the role ‘to pursue other opportunities’. Hazard joined Hodder Headline in 1999 as publishing manager before... Read more
AI and publishing: Concerns beyond copyright
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Features
The publishing sector’s response to last year’s revelations about the materials used to train generative AI has been characterised by concern over the unauthorised use of pirated books in these... Read more
International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Awards International news
The shortlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$95,600), has been announced. The titles in the running for this year’s prize, chosen from a longlist of 13 announced... Read more
Sharkman and Blowfish: World Domination (David Woodland, Berbay)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
Sharkman and Blowfish: World Domination is a fast-paced graphic novel by artist and film designer David Woodland (Ernie’s Journey). Woodland initially drew everything by hand, and the illustrations feature meticulous line-work.... Read more
My Efficient Electric Home Handbook (Tim Forcey, Murdoch)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
Energy plays a big part in our lives today, especially as the world faces a climate crisis. Electrification emerges as a solution, but managing our home’s energy can feel complicated... Read more
The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union (Gordon Bray, Gelding Street Press)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
The current crop of Wallabies may have lost their lustre, but Gordon Bray’s latest offering, The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union, harks back to a golden age of the sport.... Read more
Stella Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 4 April 2024Category: Awards Local news
The shortlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, Giramondo) Feast (Emily O’Grady, A&U) Abandon Every Hope: Essays for... Read more
Bleedthrough: censorship and book banning in Australia
Date: 3 April 2024Category: Features
When Australian writers, publishers, and librarians look at the state of US book banning, we are shocked at the violence and scale of book banning groups. Could attempts to fire... Read more
Grace the Amazing (Aleesah Darlison, Wombat Books)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
This tender middle-grade novel by well-established children’s author Aleesah Darlison (who wrote the popular junior series League of Llamas) explores friendship, coming to terms with death, and finding the courage... Read more
Jenna Lo Bianco on ‘Love & Rome’
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Features Interview
Jenna Lo Bianco is a Melbourne-based author whose heart and soul reside in Rome, Italy. Known as 'The Italian Teacher', she is also an educator, PhD candidate and advocate for... Read more
Author events: Report highlights relationships as key, problematic
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Local news
Live Literature in Australia, a new research report jointly conducted by Australia Reads and the University of Melbourne, examined the ‘considerations and barriers’ for booksellers, librarians, and teachers hosting live... Read more
ABIAs 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Who from Australia is at Bologna? Come and say hello at the Australian Stand party
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian editorial
Young adult titles on offer at Bologna
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian profile
Meet the publisher: Nicola Robinson at the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian newsletter Think Australian profile
Because I’m Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black Inc)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
Cristy Burne on ‘Ultra Violet’
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Features Interview
CBCA 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Features
SWF 2024 program released, Needham wins MUD Literary Prize, International Booker Prize longlist announced
Date: 13 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Shankari Chandran on ‘Safe Haven’
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Features Interview
International Booker Prize 2024 longlist
Date: 12 March 2024Category:
Zhan receives 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Former PRH, Macmillan executives launch new profit-share publishing venture
Date: 7 March 2024Category: International news
Book publicity in the TikTok age: What moves the needle now?
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Features
What influences book sales? ‘It’s still maddeningly difficult to tell,’ says Richard Charkin
Date: 6 March 2024Category:
Bookings are closing soon for Think Australian’s Bologna issue, out 21 March
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Classifieds
Reti resigns from MWF board over program
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Local news
Pantera acquires Lenton debut ‘Spite Pie’
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
CBCA 2024 Notable Books announced
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Work Backwards (Tim Duggan, Pantera)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Bri Lee on ‘The Work’
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Features Interview
Conversation launches books and ideas newsletter
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Local news
Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Features
Deep Is the Fen (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Jerry’s Window (Y K Willemse, Wombat Books)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
The Most Famous Boy in Town (Bel Schenk, Espresso)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Funder longlisted for inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
Date: 19 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Have you booked your advertising for Think Australian’s Bologna issue?
Date: 14 February 2024Category: Classifieds
Girt by Sea: Re-imagining Australia’s security (Rebecca Strating & Joanne Wallis, La Trobe)
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
The Gorgon Flower (John Richards, UQP)
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Stuart Kells on ‘Alice™’
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Features Interview
Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, MUP)
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 12 February 2024Category: Awards International news
Rural and regional writers’ festival programs announced
Date: 8 February 2024Category: Local news
Romantasy, audio and b-format: Bookseller and publisher predictions for 2024
Date: 31 January 2024Category: Features
Have you booked your advertising for Think Australian’s Bologna issue?
Date: 31 January 2024Category: Classifieds
Books in the media this weekend, 20–21 January
Date: 19 January 2024Category: Books in the media
‘Get Your Story Straight’ sells to Levine Querido
Date: 18 January 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
POD and the pandemic: How are publishers using print on demand now?
Date: 17 January 2024Category: Features
Publicist—young readers, Sydney
Date: 17 January 2024Category: Jobs
What Happened to Nina? (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins)
Date: 16 January 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Cool Water (Myfanwy Jones, Hachette)
Date: 16 January 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
The Great Housing Hijack (Cameron K Murray, A&U)
Date: 16 January 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Gougoulis to depart Text
Date: 16 January 2024Category: Local news
Allen-Paisant wins 2023 T S Eliot Prize
Date: 16 January 2024Category: International news
The Most Amazing Thing (Ian Hayward Robinson, illus Matt Shanks, A&U Children’s)
Date: 9 January 2024Category: Reviews
Anton Clifford-Motopi on ‘To and Fro’
Date: 9 January 2024Category: Features Interview
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 19 December 2023Category: Awards
New year, new books: Children’s and young adult stories from local publishers
Date: 13 December 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
MidnightSun acquires Prewer science fiction novel
Date: 7 December 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
The facts on 2024’s nonfiction releases
Date: 6 December 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
Kassab to be inaugural Parramatta Laureate
Date: 5 December 2023Category: Local news
Reading into the year ahead: 2024 fiction and poetry preview
Date: 29 November 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
Zilla & Brook Publicity secures major coverage for Little Bont’s Brave Play
Date: 29 November 2023Category: Classifieds
Sharlene Allsopp on ‘The Great Undoing’
Date: 28 November 2023Category: Features Interview
Affirm acquires Mupotsa-Russell debut thriller
Date: 28 November 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Rising Stars on AI
Date: 22 November 2023Category: Features
Ingram’s David Taylor on POD
Date: 22 November 2023Category:
Darkness Runs Deep (Claire McNeel, Macmillan)
Date: 21 November 2023Category: Reviews
Your Brain Is a Lump of Goo (Idan Ben-Barak, illus Christopher Nielsen, A&U Children)
Date: 21 November 2023Category: Reviews
AI and AR at the Sharjah Publishers Conference
Date: 15 November 2023Category: Features
‘I wanted to make a meaningful impact’: Reflections from the 2023 Open Book interns
Date: 15 November 2023Category: Features
Victoria Carless on ‘Lani and the Universe’
Date: 14 November 2023Category: Features Interview
Lani and the Universe (Victoria Carless, HarperCollins)
Date: 14 November 2023Category: Reviews
Life Skills for a Broken World (Ahona Guha, Scribe)
Date: 14 November 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Branigan wins 2023 Cundill History Prize
Date: 10 November 2023Category: Awards International news
Explainer: What are the costs and considerations of making audiobooks?
Date: 8 November 2023Category: Features
Listen up: How booksellers are getting in on the audiobook boom
Date: 8 November 2023Category: Features
Birdsong by the Billabong (Maura Finn, illus Cate James, Affirm)
Date: 7 November 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Completely Normal (and Other Lies) wins inaugural Gab Williams Prize
Date: 1 November 2023Category: Awards Local news
Yumna Kassab on ‘Politica’
Date: 31 October 2023Category: Features Interview
Yumna Kassab recommends
Date: 31 October 2023Category: Features
Ottley wins at World Fantasy Awards
Date: 31 October 2023Category: Awards Local news
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Date: 26 October 2023Category: Awards Local news
BookHub and Your Bookstore: New connections between ANZ booksellers and readers
Date: 25 October 2023Category: Features
Ultimo acquires A Postcard from the Future
Date: 25 October 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (Sara M Saleh, UQP)
Date: 24 October 2023Category: Reviews
Never Ever Forever (Karina May, Macmillan)
Date: 24 October 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
The Broken Wave (Matthew Ryan Davies, Macmillan)
Date: 24 October 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews